{"product_id":"socialisme-ou-barbarie-an-anthology-9781912475131","title":"Socialisme Ou Barbarie: An Anthology","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSocialisme ou Barbarie\u003c\/i\u003e (1948-67) was a revolutionary group whose members included such major figures such as Cornelius Castoriadis, Claude Lefort and Jean-François Lyotard. Its journal of the same name helped inspire France's May '68 student-worker rebellion and influenced generations of radicals worldwide. This \u003ci\u003eAnthology\u003c\/i\u003e, for the first time in print in the English language, restores the collective nature of the group's adventure, where manual and intellectual workers creatively, and not without profound disagreements, reflected and acted together in anticipation of a non-hierarchical, self-governing society. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe group radically reoriented critical revolutionary theory by affirming how social change emerges through ordinary people's everyday lives and struggles. In a world divided into two competing bureaucratic-capitalist camps, the autonomous grassroots response to rationalized forms of outside control (State-corporation-trade union-political party) would be workers' management--a conclusion stunningly confirmed, against traditional Left expectations, by the workers' revolts of 1953 and 1956 in the East, and by increasingly widespread challenges to established organizational forms in the 1960s in the West. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese texts not only examine the overall crisis of systems of domination, but explore their creative contestation in the workplace, in changing relations between the sexes and between generations, and in movements for national liberation (China, Algeria), to bring out \"the positive content of socialism\" while remaining clear-eyed about how bureaucratization may be reintroduced into emancipatory struggles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCornelius Castoriadis was a philosopher, economist and political theorist who served as a Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) from 1980 to 1995. He is best known for his book \u003ci\u003eThe Imaginary Institution of Society\u003c\/i\u003e and for his six-volume series \u003ci\u003eLes Carrefours du labyrinth\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Eris","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50691783393554,"sku":"9781912475131","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4ca17e0a-d58f-4ff3-86a3-148403f87c10.jpg?v=1734110405","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/socialisme-ou-barbarie-an-anthology-9781912475131","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}